When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea

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When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea
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Festival release poster
Directed by Eva Neymann
Screenplay byEva Neymann
Produced byKirill Krasovski
Starring
  • Valeriy Bassel
  • Fadey Fadeev
  • Madona Hupenia
Cinematography
  • Eva Neymann
  • Saša Oreškovič
Edited byPavel Zalesov
Music byMartin Hossbach
Production
companies
  • Blue Monticola Film
  • Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
Release date
Running time
124 minutes
Countries
  • Ukraine
  • Germany
Languages
  • Ukrainian
  • German

When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea is a 2025 documentary film written and directed by Eva Neymann. The film portrays people in Odesa who are searching for dignity and dreams between war, loss and hope. [1] [2]

Contents

The film was selected in Forum at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had first screening on 15 February 2025. [3]

Content

Odessa, how are you? The camera person roams your streets with her camera, capturing moments of life during wartime.

In the documentary the lens gathers glimpses of resilience and dreams, defying the narrative of mere victimhood. A widow tends to the city’s stray cats, a well-read drifter flirts with me, an old friend passes away, and yet again, the power goes out. Generators carve out small pockets of light, a wandering monk appears, giving his meal to another beggar, and a young man faces the threat of conscription, as does his brother—though he is in Moscow. In the end, as a great summer storm rolls through, everyone prays: let it be just thunder and lightning! Odessa, may you know nothing more than thunder and lightning!

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on 23 October 2023 at location in Ukraine. Filming ended on 15 April 2024 in locations in Odesa, Ukraine. [4]

Release

When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea had its world premiere in the Forum section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival 15 February 2025. [5] [6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea". Blue Monticola Film. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea, Germany 2023-2025, Documentary". filmportal.de (in German). 5 December 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  3. ↑ Davide Abbatescianni (16 January 2025). "Berlinale's Forum announces a selection of contemporary cinema questioning our time". Cineuropa . Retrieved 19 January 2025.
  4. ↑ "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea, Documentary, 2023-2025, Germany". Crew United. 5 December 2024. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  5. ↑ Scott Roxborough (16 January 2025). "Berlin Forum Unveils Full 2025 Lineup". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "When Lightning Flashes Over the Sea". Berlinale. 4 February 2025. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
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